Cake-beating machine.



No. 663,942. Patented Dec. l8, I900.

N. THOMAS.

CAKE BEATING MACHINE.

(Application filed Mar. 22, 1900 (No Model.)

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NORMA THOMAS, OF ST. STEPHENS, ALABAMA.

CAKE-BEATING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,942, dated December 18, 1900.

Application filed March 22, 1900. Serial No. 9,729. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NORMA THOMAS, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at St. Stephens, in the county of Washington and State of Alabama, have invented a certain new and useful Cake-Beating Machine, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to cake-beating machines.

One object of the invention is to obviate the laborious work of whipping or beating eggs, &c., by hand and to employ in lieu thereof a foot-propelled machine embodying, in connection with adriven shaft, a whippercarrying arm by means of which the agitation of the eggs and other ingredients of the cake may be properly effected.

The invention also contemplates the use, in

connection with the whipper-carrying arm,

of a dish-supporting shelf so mounted that it may be raised and lowered and also adjusted to any angle.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the course of the ensuing description.

The invention consists in a cake-beating machine embodying certain novel features and details of construction and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the drawings, and incorporated in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation, partly in section, of a machine constructed in accordance with this invention. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the whipper-carrying arm. Fig. 3 is a similar view of the adjustable dish-supporting shelf.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in all the fig- .ures of the drawings. Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a stand comprising suitable legs or standards 2 and by preference supplied at one side or end with a plurality of drawers 3 for spices, &c. The stand also comprises a top 4:, upon which is mounted the housing 5, in which the operafive parts of the mechanism are contained.

The machine is operated by means of a suitable treadle 6, having conneeted thereto a pitman 7, which connects at its opposite end with a driving-wheel 8, from whicha drivingbelt 9 passes upward around a pulley-wheel 10 on a shaft 11, mounted in a bearing 12 in the outer side of the housing 5. To the outer end of the shaft 1] is connected a fly-wheel 13, and to the inner end thereof is rigidly secured a disk 14, carrying a wrist-pin 15, terminally headed, as shown at 16.

Operatively connected with the wrist-pin 16 is a whipper-carrying arm 17, fulcrumed at an intermediate point on a hanger 18, pendent from the upper wall of the casing or housing 5 and provided at its lower end with a ball 19, fitting in a socket 20in the whippercarrying arm 17 and held within the socket by means of a keeper-plate 21, secured to the body portion of the arm by means of a retaining-screw 23, by removing which the whip per-carrying arm 17 may be detached from the hanger. The hanger is provided with a circumferential shoulder 24, which bears against the upper horizontal wall of the housing 5, and is further provided with a threaded shank 25, which receives a nut 26, screwing against the outer surface of the housing 5, and thus fastening the hanger securely thereto. The inner extremity of the whippercarrying arm 17 is bent downward, as shown at 27, and provided with an opening or hearing 28 for the reception of the wrist-pin 15,the opening being somewhat larger than the pin,so as to allow the necessary end play of the extremity of the arm on the pin as the arm swings. By associating the parts in the manner above set forth it will be seen that the inner end of the whippercarrying arm describes a circle, while the outer end of the arm describes a larger circle, the relative sizes of the circles described depending upon the location of the fulcrum-point of the arm. The outer end of the whipper-carrying arm 17 is bifurcated to receive the bandle of the whipper 29, which is shown in the form of an ordinary spoon, the handle being clamped by means of a binding-screw 30.

The dish-supporting shelf is indicated at 31 and is supported by the upper ends of a pair of standards 32, having openings to receive thumb-screws 33, which enter the opposite edges of the shelf 31 and enable the shelf to beadjusted to any desired angle with relation to a horizontal plane. The shelf is provided at its lower end with a guard-flange 34 to prevent the dish from sliding therefrom. The standards 32 pass downward through hearings or sockets 35, having base-flanges36, by means of which they are secured to the top of the stand. Bindingscrews 37 pass through the sockets 35 and bear against the standards32, thus enabling the standards to be raised and lowered and fixed at any de sired point of adjustment.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that I have provided a foot-operated machine to which a whipper of any desired construction may be applied and which will impart to the whipper a movement similar to that given by the hand in beating eggs, cream, cake materials, 850.; also, that the dish-supporting shelf may be raised and lowered according to requirements and the depth of material contained in the dish and that the vary the construction within the scope of this invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. In a cake-beating machine, the combination with a stand or table, of a pair of vertically-adjustable standards mounted on the table, means for adjusting said standards up and down, and a dish-supporting shelf mounted on said standards and adjustable as to its angle, substantially as described.

2. In a-cake-beatin g machine, the combina-- tion with a stand or table, of a pair of verti= cally-adjustable standards, sockets therefor on the table having means for adjusting and fixing the adjust ment of the standards, a dish= supporting shelf mounted upon the standards, and means for adjusting the angle of the shelf relatively to the standards and fixing the ad justment, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

NORMA THOMAS.

Witnesses:

W. A. MOSELEY, N. W. BEVERLY. 

